better bottle

[Chuganator]

Yesterday I poured my batch of wort into a 5 gal ported Better Bottle. I noticed that there is a small drip comming out at the neck before the spigot. I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem. Can it be tightened by holding the inner part in place and twisting the outer? Also could this be a chance for the batch to become tainted? And Thank You all! for the excellent information, it made my first batch a breeze excluding this little problem.

Oh yes, also what do you think of using a 35% hydrogen peroxide for sterilization? I probably put about 2gals of water in the carboy and 1oz of the 35%, then let it sit while i played mad scientist. Then dumped it and threw some pre-boiled water and shook it about.

 

[Yooper]

Your BB shouldn't leak- I think you do need to tighten it. It should have come with a tool to hold the inside still while you tighten the outside. Make sure you sanitize anything that you're using before it touches your beer. And beer careful not to aerate your beer while you have it open. Don't swirl it around.

I've never heard of using H2O2 to sanitize. Hopefully it worked. Your best bet is really to get some sanitizer, or at least use bleach. Do a search on using bleach- most of us hate the idea but some do use it if it's rinsed really, really well. You need to kill all the wild yeasts and bacteria or you will have contaminated beer.

 

[olllllo]

If this is the primary we're talking about here, is there a stop-gap measure you can take from the outside so that you canride this out for a week? Duct tape- what have you.

If this is the secondary, I'd seriously consider transfering back to the primary until you can get things leak proof.

As above mentioned... use Idophor or Star-san.

 

[happycrabster]

Do you mean right up against the bottle, or outboard, near the poppet valve? I just had the latter on a new spigot, ended up trading it in at my source (they were real good about it). If that is the case, it's probably a bad sealing surface somewhere around the o-ring and there's not much you can do to fix it.
Tony

 

[Chuganator]

Everything looks and smells fine so far. Believe im in the clear with the sanatization. This 35%peroxide is strong stuff, accidently drank a half and half mix of it with water. Burning throat.. puked a bit of foam... It didnt tickle... haha. On the down side this was the only bottle my local brew shop had, no tools came with it and it might be difficult to get them to ship it back to get replaced. The leak is'nt too bad, it's dripping rite before the poppet valve but it looks like it may be comming from the wall and dripping down to that point. Probably loosing half a mil in 24hrs. No choice but to sacrafice a beer i guess. Heres to the fallen homies!

Does the Better Bottle company have a website? I'd rather clear it up with them if the tightening does'nt work.

thanks again, peace

 

[david_42]

1 oz. of 35% H2O2 + 2 gallons of water = way too weak to be effective. A 3% solution is about the weakest that would be usable. That's 1 oz. of 35% and 12 oz. of water.

 

[Chuganator]

Ok, thanks. I'll be sure to increase next time.

 

[happycrabster]

Does the Better Bottle company have a website? I'd rather clear it up with them if the tightening does'nt work.

thanks again, peace[/QUOTE]

http://www.better-bottle.com/

...haven't dealt with them directly, though.

 

[Chuganator]

Well good news, the leak has basicaly stopped once the fermentation kicked in furthur. So i believe im in the clear till I empty and try to fixed it/fight to get it replaced. H202 worked fine, no sign of infection at all, it almost smells like strawberry cream, must be the german ale yeast...

But thanks again for all the help and suggestions, I'm sure you'll be hearing from me again.
peace